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M. HARRIS.

PILLOW SHAM HOLDER. No. 278,705. v Paizented June5, 1883.

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MILO HARRIS, OF JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NATHANIEL E. THOMAS, OF SAME PLACE.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,705, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed November 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILO HARRIS, of J amestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pillow-Sham Holders;

eral parts set forth in the following descrip-,

tion and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the invention as applied. Fig. 2 shows sectional view of roll and bracket. Fig. 3 shows one of the brackets; Fig. 4, a

-modification which may be applied at the end of roller.

In the drawings, A represents a bedstead.

B is a wood roller or stretcher crossing the head of the bedstead, and is held in position by the brackets C C. These may be stamped out of heavy sheet metal; but I generally have them cast with screw-holes, so they can be attached to head board or posts, as desired, and one bracket has a round hole large enough for the roller or stretcher to work in and the other a square hole or mortise for the same. Theroller is made square near one end and of smallercircumference and round next to the knobs a a, which are screwed on each end, and serve to keep the roller from slipping too far endwise, and hold the roller from coming out the brackets. These knobs are also used to turn the roller when desired.

D D D are rods or spring-wires screwed into the roller, and extend from it a suitable distance, and have a cross-wire at their end. I

sometimes set the outside wires to project out wardly, and instead of using the cross-wire I use a strong cord and draw the wire in somewhat, and the spring of the wire draws the cord to the proper tension. The roller and rods form a suitable frame for holding the pillow-sham, and these are secured to the roller vice you grasp the knob and turn the roller, so the rods and shams stand upright, and the roller is pushed endwise, the square of the roller fitting the square of the bracket, and the whole is held up .and out of way when using the bed, and can as readily be slipped endwise off the square, and is rolled down, carrying the shams back over the pillows, as before. \Vhen desired to use as a mosquito-bar holder, the roller is turned till the wire rods are horizontal, and then the roller slipped endwise. The square of roller enters the square of bracket and holds the rods out over the head of the bed. Mosquitonetting of suitable dimensions is thrown over or fastened to the roller and frame, and, coming down on the bed,- completes the operation.

. Instead of the square being cut on the roller and a square mortise in bracket for holding the frame in an upright or horizontal position, I sometimes use a bracket with cross-mortises,

as shown at c, Fig. 4, and put onto the end of roller a flanged casting, a, Fig. 4, to fit said mortise; yet I find the other method cheaper and better.

7 I claim 1. In pillow-sham holders, a roller with rods rigidly attached thereto to form a frame for holding the shams, the roller being provided with suitable bearings to rotate in brackets which are securely held to the head of a bedstead, one bracket having a square mortise, the roller having a corresponding square near one end to enter said mortise, for the purpose of holding the frame of sham-holder in an upright or horizontal position, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a bedstead, a pillowsham holder consistingof roller B, rods D, tie b, and brackets O 0, all made and arranged to operate substantially as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim'the foregoing as my own invention I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MILO HARRIS. Witnesses:

L. E. HARRIS, L. M. THOMAS.

and frame by bands or any other suitable means, and when desired to operate the de- 

